Paul Banchero has not yet decided where he will play

The words of Paul Banchero

Paolo Banchero is back to answer the question everyone is asking and asking him: will he play with Team USA or the Italian national team?

“I haven’t decided yet,” he reiterated in the “Knuckleheads” podcast on The Player’s Tribune website. My Italian roots go back to my great-grandfather, my family and I have never been to Italy and I will try to go in the summer. In my high school days I took part in several tryouts with US youth teams, but they always rejected me. At that point Italy stepped up. Then I had the passport opportunity and I took it, and they helped me with the paperwork. Probably without the Covid I would have made my Olympic debut, but a lot has happened in the meantime and now everything is different.”